Matt Pitstick
Chief Technology Officer, SNA Software LLC
United States
About
Matt Pitstick is Chief Technology Officer at SNA Software, leveraging his 20 years of experience in project management software to architect and develop our groundbreaking Proteus Envision solution. Matt was on the working group that developed the framework of what became the Integrated Performance Management Report (IPMR) Data Item Description (DiD), in which he provided valuable input to the emerging standard. After successfully proving the efficacy and accuracy of the IPMR data formats to the Program Assessment and Root Cause Analysis (PARCA) division, the IPMR was executed into policy and Matt served on the change control board as a vendor representative. He went on to extend the schema’s capabilities to better support customer and industry requirements and then assisted with the Integrated Program Management Data Analysis Reports (IPMDAR) DiD by providing guidance through the NDIA IPMD division and other channels, ensuring that the new datasets would continue to support various government stakeholders.
Matt has been paramount in the successful rollout of EnvisionData and Proteus to deliver dozens of extremely powerful reporting and analytical workspaces in the Proteus Envision repositories. His efforts led to the championing of the Proteus Envision product suite by the Air Force Space and Missile Center (SMC), Navy Engineering Logistics Office (NELO), Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other project-centric government and commercial agencies. All of these organizations use Proteus Envision as their de facto standard to facilitate the analysis, reporting and predictive measurements of program performance, as well as system compliance, on hundreds of billions of dollars of acquisition contract scope. Matt has continuously demonstrated his ability to comprehend complex project management challenges faced by commercial firms and government organizations in the aerospace, defense, oil and gas, and construction markets.
Prior to SNA Software, Matt was instrumental in implementing project management software and processes at Lockheed Martin Space Company, working in the Central Program Performance Management Tools group. He also was technical manager for the wInsight Dashboard at C/S Solutions where he also used his skills to develop courses and worked with customers to ensure successful implementations. Matt later went on to work with Deltek as a systems consultant where he continued to implement project management tools and processes in the aerospace and defense, and federal markets.
Matt is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo with a B.S. in Business Management Information Systems (Honors). While there he played Division I baseball for the Mustangs on a scholarship.
Presentation Title & Abstract
Art of the Possible: The Frontiers of Integrated Project, Program, and Portfolio Management
Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) has traditionally been focused on the integration of cost performance and schedule. Two overarching trends that are causing a rethinking of this self-limiting concept are the communications and information systems employed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which opened pathways to new ways of thinking about the status quo, and the start-ups and new entries into the various project-centric market verticals, borne from investments in new technologies arising from external market, geo-political, space science, global warming, and propulsion trends, as well as new technologies and methods being employed in data and information technology that drive greater efficiency and productivity. These changes have forced a new language and new expectations as to the art of the necessary, as well as the art of the possible, for IPPM. This new language includes a transition to the concept of the optimal capture and use of all data across the entire program management life cycle, with greater emphasis on systems engineering, technical performance, and risk. In this session, SNA Software will walk through both the art of necessity and the art of the possible under this new environment using the Proteus and Envision software suite.